- Johnny Carson: Who's one of the worst people you know in Hollywood?
- Bette Davis: That I worked with?
- Johnny Carson: Or that you wouldn't want to work with again. If, you don't have to comment...
- Bette Davis: One million dollars, Faye Dunaway.
- [some nervous chuckles from audience]
- Bette Davis: Everybody you can put in this chair will tell you exactly the same thing.
- [audience laughs]
- Johnny Carson: What is it about Ms. Dunaway that makes her...
- Bette Davis: Well, she's just totally impossible.
- Johnny Carson: Really.
- Bette Davis: Yes. I don't think we have time to go into ALL the reasons.
- [audience laughs]
- Bette Davis: She's just, let's put it, she's just uncooperative.
- Johnny Carson: She's not...
- Bette Davis: Totally. Ms. Dunaway is for Ms. Dunaway. No, she truly, all seriously, is really, she's very unprofessional.
- Johnny Carson: I see.
- Bette Davis: Difficult woman.
- Johnny Carson: Well you had a reputation at certain times of being kinda tough yourself.
- Bette Davis: Oh no, I never had a reputation of THAT kind of thing. No no no.
- Johnny Carson: Oh.
- Bette Davis: I have never behaved in an unprofessional manner. That includes keeping actors waiting, keeping crews waiting, all those things. No. Never never never.
- Johnny Carson: Well you are a true professional. That's for sure.
- Bette Davis: Yes, that is really what she isn't.